Eunyoung Myung

Postdoctoral Associate, Action Research Collaborative, Department of Communication

About

Eunyoung Myung is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Action Research Collaborative (ARC) at Cornell University. Her research interests focused on media use and its consequences in the context of health. Within this domain, her research specifically focuses on two topic areas: (a) what individual characteristics, such as sociodemographic and psychological factors, affect the actions of media use for health information seeking and (b) identifying mechanisms that explain relations between mass media health information exposure and health behavior outcomes.

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2022
School of Journalism and Mass communication
Major: Mass Communication
Dissertation: Predictors of Young Adults’ Diet and Exercise information seeking on YouTube: Applying and Extending the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking.
Minor: Educational Psychology

M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 2012
College of Liberal and Professional Studies
Thesis: Citizen Journalism: how it is changing and challenging traditional journalism.

B.S. University of Texas, Austin, 2010
School of Journalism and Media
Major: Multimedia Journalism

Courses Taught

School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Journalism 201: Introduction to Mass Communication (J201)
A university signature introduction course that covers a broad, systematic examination of the mass media society. This course meets the Letters & Science Communication B (intensive writing and oral presentation) requirements, and my responsibilities include planning and conducting activities, such as facilitating discussions, as well as writing and revising essays.

Teaching Assistant: Spring 2015; Spring 2016; Fall 2016; Spring, 2017

Contact Information

494 A Mann Library Building

Ithaca, NY 14853

em862 [at] cornell.edu

Selected Publications

Hong, Y., Myung, E., & Kim, S. (2021). The Substituting Relationship Between Presumed Media Influence and Interpersonal Health Communication. Journal of Communication in Healthcare. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2021.1954411.

Ko D., Myung E., Moon T., Shah D. (2019). Physical activity in persons with diabetes: its relationship with media use for health information, socioeconomic status and age, Health Education Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyz003.

Riddle, K., Di, Z., Kim, S., Myung, E., Tay, S. K., & Xu, F. (2017). The unexpected comfort of wearing headphones: Emotional and cognitive effects of headphone use when playing a bloody video game. Entertainment Computing, 19, 43-52.

Jacobson, S., Myung, E., & Johnson, S. L. (2015). Open media or echo chamber: the use of links in audience discussions on the Facebook Pages of partisan news organizations. Information, Communication & Society, 1-17.

Eunyoung in the news

News

April 18, 2024

ARC researcher, Eunyoung Myung, works to bridge health equity gaps in NY

Eunyoung Myung, postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Action Research Collaborative, wants to understand the role communication plays in health and ultimately learn how media use can narrow the divide in well-being and healthcare access. Her...

Communication
Department of Communication